An adviser to Doug Emhoff claimed Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris skipped a chance to seem on Joe Rogan’s podcast over fears of a progressive “backlash.”
“There was a backlash with a few of our progressive workers that didn’t need her to be on it, and the way there could be a backlash,” stated Jennifer Palmieri, an adviser to Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, per the Monetary Instances.
The host of “The Joe Rogan Expertise” has shared a number of the explanation why an interview with Harris by no means materialized. Within the weeks earlier than Election Day, he shared that he refused to do an on-site interview whereas Harris was campaigning. On Tuesday, Rogan stated that Harris’ marketing campaign put the kibosh on sure matters throughout a possible interview, which led him to say no.
“They’d, I don’t know what number of conversations with my of us, however a number of conversations giving totally different dates, totally different occasions, totally different this, totally different that,” Rogan stated. “I feel they’d necessities on issues that she did not need to discuss, she did not need to discuss marijuana legalization, which I believed was hilarious.”
If true, the ban on legalization speak could be unusual. Harris’ marketing campaign pushed marijuana legalization as a plank of their marketing campaign in its closing days.
Palmieri, for her half, stated the desire they-won’t they information cycle created a “bizarre dynamic” between the marketing campaign and Rogan.
“Swiftly he’s on his heels about how his viewers goes to react to this, and the calls for that they had been going to placed on him to be robust on her,” she shared whereas talking at a convention organized by The Clearing Home.
Donald Trump and JD Vance each appeared on Rogan’s podcast whereas on the marketing campaign path. Rogan formally endorsed Trump on the Monday earlier than the election and has inspired the president-elect to attempt for unity over revenge in his second administration.
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